Checkout the overall ratings that these movies are receiving from Film critics. In Theaters This Weekend: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Safe House, Rampart, Return, In Darkness,Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island:Young Sean Anderson receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist. It’s a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Rottentomatoes.com Rating:43% Metacritic.com Rating:41
75. Entertainment Weekly: The movie flies by pleasantly, and is then instantly forgettable. Perhaps Jules Verne can explain the science of that.
40. Village Voice: The film is endurable owing solely to Johnson, a veteran of bad kids’ movies whose sense of when to dial up the charm in such a generic, soulless entertainment remains impeccable.
Safe House:For the past year, Matt Weston has been frustrated by his inactive, backwater post in Cape Town. A “housekeeper” who aspires to be a full-fledged agent, the loyal company man has been waiting for an …. Rottentomatoes.com Rating:52% Metacritic.com Rating:53
70. The New York Times: Essentially and very effectively a rollicking smash-and-crash chase movie that happens to be surprisingly well acted.
50. Variety: In contrast with the fragmented kineticism of Paul Greengrass’ “Bourne” movies, there’s no existential dimension to the shattered-glass aesthetic here; it’s just raw, chaotic action, inelegantly shot and staged but no less unnerving for it.
Rampart:Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right … Rottentomatoes.com Rating:73 Metacritic.com Rating:69
88. Rolling Stone: Yup, it could have been a bucket of bleak. But the electric talent of Harrelson and Moverman is too exciting to be anything but exhilarating.
50. New York Post: As the movie drags on, though, it takes on a throbbing, sick monotone. This isn’t a concert, it’s a bass guitar solo, all thumping blackness.
